Captured by Christ Life the Core of Faith
A 1950 lesson frames Christian growth as being captured by Jesus Christ rather than mere religion. It compares spiritual life to a student seized by music, insists Christ dwelling in believers guides every choice, and urges continual, intimate fellowship with Christ for lasting transformation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Jesus Christ
Paul
Christendom
St. Francis
Ballington Booth
Christ Master
Christ
Welcome to Seventh Day Adventist Church in Washington County
The Seventh Day Adventist church on North Fifth Ave invites for Sabbath school at 2 p.m. and sermon at 3 p.m. The denomination meets on Saturday. Glenn Millard is the pastor.
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Seventh Day Adventist
North Fifth Ave
Glenn Millard
Sunday Mass Schedule and Winter Weekday Service
Sunday morning masses at 7 8 30 and 10 15 a m. Weekday mass in winter months at the convent chapel at 7 o clock. Rev. R J Kinnavey.
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Convent Chapel
R. J. Kinnavey
Presbyterian Bible School and Worships Schedule
Morning worship at 9 45. Sermon topic New Moons and New Years. Westminster Fellowship 2 90 p m Eva Blattner and Charles Bartholow in charge Evening service 7 30 Ber man topic Christian Adventure Prayer service Wednesday 9 30 Music for Sunday morning preludes and anthems Bach and Shelley directed by Edith Shields pastor Wu J Grossheim.
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Bible School
Westminster Fellowship
Eva Blattner
Charles Bartholow
Berman
Christian Tabernacle Sunday Services Schedule
Morning worship at 11 o clock with sermon The Worthiest Resolution. No group service at 6:30 due to watch night evangelistic service at 7:30. Watch night service to follow. Public invited. W. J. Stevens, pastor.
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W. J. Stevens
United Presbyterian Bible School Service This Morning
William McConnell Jr. serves as superintendent for the United Presbyterian Bible School with morning worship at 10:45. Sermon titled Winning Favor With God features Prelude Ring In the Christ from Ring Out Wild Bells, Offertory The Piper and the Star, Anthem Did You Think to Be, Prayer Response Hear the Petitions We Offer, Maestoso. Youth Fellowship hosts New Year’s Eve service at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday choir rehearsal and midweek worship with Pastor Evert L. Haney.
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Bible School
William McConnell Jr
Christian Bible School Sunday Schedule and Choir Details
Morning worship at 9 45 a m with sermon New Things Youth fellowship at 10 45 a m Organ prelude ABerceuse Dickinson Organ offertory Prayer 7 Lemaigre Solo Il Heard The Voice of Jesus Say John ate Gaffey Organ postlude Andante Merkel Robert Everetts director of music Mrs A S Smith organist Tom Polk pastor
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Bible School
Lemaigre
Jesus
Merkel Robert Everetts
A.S. Smith
Tom Polk
St Pauls Evangelical Church Sunday Schedule 1960
St Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church Washington announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. Sermon titled A Cheerful Outlook For 1960. Youth fellowship at 6 30 p.m. Pastor to lead discussion. Woman’s Guild meets Thursday in social rooms.
Christian Science Lesson-Ser Focus December 31 1950
The excerpt outlines the December 31 1950 Christian Science Lesson Sermon on Christian Science. It cites John 16 13 and John 14 12 as guiding texts and notes Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health discussion of healing methods and the discovery of a universal rule for demonstration of healing.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
Church Banquet Planned by Mother's and Daughter's Group
In the church basement a Mother's and Daughter's banquet is scheduled for January with dinner served by the Men's Brotherhood. The program includes a Bible verse from Psalms and a note naming Milo J. Phillipi as pastor. The event begins at 6:30.
Country Churches Service Schedule and Choir Programs
Multiple church notices list service times and events. New Haven Baptist announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 with officer elections on New Year’s Day after a cooperative noon dinner. Various leaders and ministers named oversee youth, music, and midweek Bible study.
Associate Presbyterian Service Schedule and Events
The notice lists weekly services at Associate Presbyterian with Bible school at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Evening worship is at 7 p.m. A New Year dinner and congregational meeting are planned for Monday at noon, followed by a cottage prayer meeting at 8 p.m. at the Dawson home. Basil Mee is the pastor.
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Dawson Home
Basil Meee
Nazarene Church Sunday Schedule with Pastor Hahn
Church of Nazarene lists services and programs. Morning worship at 10 45 a m Junior class at 6 30 p m NYPS at 6 45 p m Evening service at 7 30 p m Wednesday prayer meeting led by pastor IF A Hahn.
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IF. A. Hahn
Baptist Church Week Schedule and Events
Baptist church announces a morning sermon Looking Ahead and a New Year carol program by junior choir Norwegian folk song anthem and a Watch Night Service. Dedication for a new parsonage at Wellman at 6 pm plus Fifth Sunday rally with potluck and basket service. Supervising staff Rev Karl C Longfellow and Mrs Paul Thayer with choir director Mrs Chas McConnell key roles.
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Edmonds
New Baptist
Wellman
Washington Baptist Youth Fellowship
Board of Trustees
Karl C. Longfelow
Paul Thayer
Chas. McConnell
Immanuel Lutheran Announces Service and Meeting
Immanuel Lutheran hosts Divine worship at 10 a m. on Sunday with no Sunday school. A quarterly voters meeting follows at 8 p m at the parsonage. Pastor H F Anger invites all members to attend.
Trinity Lutheran Sunday Activities and services
Trinity Lutheran schedules Sunday school at 10 am and Divine worship at 11 am with the sermon Peace Though the Lord's Christ. Eve service Sunday at 7 30 pm with Holy Communion and the theme Our Two fold Verdict at The Close of the Year. Announcements for Holy Communion Sunday at 7 pm. Sunday School teachers meet Tuesday at 8 pm and a voters meeting Wednesday January 10 led by Pastor O H Moll.
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Trinity Lutheran
O. H. Moll
Irrigation Shortage Covering Much of U S Farmland
About 40 percent of U S land lacks enough rainfall for safe agriculture yet only 3 percent of this area is irrigated. The statement highlights a wide gap between arid regions and irrigation development.
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United States
St Pauls Evangelical Reformed Church Service Notice
Morning worship at 9 30 a m Sunday school at 10 30 a m with sermon A Cheerful Outlook For 1951 The Ladies Aid society meets Wednesday at Mrs Zeno Times home A cooperative dinner will be served at noon Be of good courage and ye shall strengthen your heart from Psalm
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Valley
Ladies Aid Society
Zeno Times
Psa
Milo J. Phillipi
Sunday Schedule Showcases Student Recognition Day
Sunday school at 10 a.m. led by Frank B. Kleese, superintendent. Morning worship at 11 a.m. Student recognition day features several students in the service. Youth Fellowship 6:30 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 p.m. Sermon by R Vernon Pike, minister titled The Good News.
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Frank B. Kleese
R. Vernon Pike
Annual church activities and watch night service announced
Sunday school at 10 with family classes and morning worship at 11. The sermon titled 1950, a Year of Duties Done. A watch night service starts at 9:30 p m with prayer to ring out the old year and in the new. The annual business meeting is set for January 1. Pastor L Fast invites all to attend.
Prairie Flower Baptist Worship and Youth Notices
The Prairie Flower Baptist Church holds worship at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. Bob Livingston a Bob Jones University student speaks. A youth meeting is Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. with Merjorie Gammon. Bible study and prayer meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. Minister H F Kirchner leads.
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Bob Livingston
Bob Jones University
Merjorie Gammon
Ainsworth Churches Banner Week with Student Recognition
Ainsworth churches schedule includes 10 a.m. Sunday school on Shape of Things to Come, 11 a.m. sermon, and corporate communion. Nine students home from college for the holidays will be honored. Student leaders Quentin Jenkins and Martha Ellen Thompson. Ronald Rogers from State University of Iowa sings The Lord's Prayer. Anthem God So Loved The World directed by Mrs Irene Trotter with organist Mrs Correne Hendrickson.
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Quentin Jenkins
Martha Ellen Thompson
Ronald Rogers
State University of Iowa
Malotte
God
Stainer
Irene Trotter
Correne Hendrickson
Congregation Sings Christmas Hymns Low MYF Meeting
A church service transcript notes the congregation singing O Come All Ye Faithful and It Came Upon The Midnight Clear. It records no meeting of MYF and mentions Carl Steefel the clergyman.
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Myf
Carl Steefel
Federated Presbyterian Church Schedule and New Year's Dinner
Crawfordsville churches announce Sunday school 9 45 a m with Robert Henderson Supt Morning worship 10 50 a m Union Youth Meeting 7 30 p m Union Evening Service 7 30 p m at the Federated church Colored slides of the Passion Play of Oberammergau Germany will be shown Public invited New Year dinner January 1 at 12 noon basket dinner Ernest G Smith pastor
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Federated Presbyterian
Robert Henderson
Federated Church Union
Federated Church
Oberammergau
Germany
Ernest, G. Smith
Methodist Church Sunday Schedule and Donated Brass Plates
The Sunday program lists a 10 a.m. Methodist Sunday school led by superintendent John McNeil, an 11 a.m. morning worship, and a 6:30 p.m. union young peoples meeting at the Federated church. Three new brass offering plates were dedicated last Sunday as gifts from several men of the church. Reverend Clare H. Boos is the minister.
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Methodist Sunday School
John McNeil
Union Young Peoples Meeting
M. Federated Church
Clare H. Boos
A girl writes a calendar and vows a beautiful year
A girl tacks a new year calendar and vows to make each day count with one beautiful thing. A listener asks how a year can be beautiful, and she cites taking one day at a time. The exchange ends with Psalm 90 verses urging wisdom and divine blessing.
Racial gaps in infant death rates across states
The report shows nonwhite infant deaths far exceed white deaths in New Mexico and Connecticut. New Mexico records 235 nonwhite deaths per 1000 births, over six times Connecticut whites at 38 and nonwhites at 63 per 1000. Similar disparities occur in Georgia Tennessee and South Carolina with nonwhite rates about 1.5 times whites.
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New Mexico
Connecticut
Georgia
Tennessee
South Carolina
Margarine's Origins and Modern Plant Based Production
Napoleon III offered a prize in 1870 for a butter substitute, spurring early margarine manufacture in France. Originally beef fat, margarine now uses plant fats and oils. its butter flavor comes from milk treated with lactic acid bacteria. Modern margarine is engineered to align with nutrition and supply advances.
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Napoleon III
France
Young People Sponsor New Years Eve Service
The United Presbyterian Church in Washington invites the public to a New Year’s Eve service sponsored by the Youth Fellowship. The program starts at 9 45 p m with a film at 10 30 and a watch night service from 11 to midnight.
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United Presbyterian Church
Washington
Youth Fellowship
Students to Conduct Service at Chester
West Chester Methodist church observes Cognition day with an 11 o clock service and a student led program. Mary Jane Stephens from Ames opens the service with a prelude while Harold Nicola Jr. from Washington junior college gives the call to worship. Kenneth Cuddeback, a former Ames student, will speak on the Wesley foundation. Esther Bauer, graduate of AIC, sings and Phyllis Disney from AIC reads scripture. Several senior high students including Joyce Kleese Joy Bauer and Keith Parcell participate.
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West Chester
West Chester Methodist Church
Mary Jane Stephens
Ames
Harold Nicola Jr
Washington Junior College
Willard Peterson
Donna Reis
Donna
Kansas City Air School
Kenneth Cuddeback
Wesley Foundation
Esther Bauer
A.I.C
Phyllis Disney
Ann Bauer
Iowa State Teachers College
Joyce Kleese
Joy Bauer
Keith Parcell
Martins Entertain Children Christmas
Christmas day Mr and Mrs Clayton Martin entertained their children and families in Rabio. Guests included the Longs Derbys Luithlys Steinbeck and others. Later visits covered Ottumwa Lancaster Ainsworth Woolson and Ger- area gatherings with several extended family members attending meals and baptisms.
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Rabio
Clayton Martin
Arthur Long
Brighton
Robert Martin
Henry Derby
Richland
Paul Martin
Ignly
Washington
Charles Martin
Zeno Tines
Elmer Derby
Bill Derbys
Otto Wilson
Mr. Pleasant
Fred Lepperts
Hoyt Luithly
Estherville
John Luithly
Art Luithly
van Gabby
Don Bailey
Clara Fleig
A. J. Steinbeck
Ottumwa
Kortney Lorane Steinbeck
Frank van Order
Omer Long
Violet
Lester Long
Linda
Pete Randolph
Lancaster
Iowa
Wendell Pfeifer
Jodie Zear
Clark Pfeifer
Ainsworth
Wendell
Dorothy Jean Payton
Ben Young
Woolson
Christmas Gatherings Across Richland Area Families
Christmas day featured numerous gatherings with relatives visiting from Davenport Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa. Notable meals included the Floyd Collett home and the Arthur Sparks Christmas dinner. Attendees spanned the Schmitters Morgans Johnsons and McClintics with many spouses and children present.
School Children Start Back After One Week Break
School children enjoy a week of vacation and plan to return to classes next Monday January first.
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Bible Speaks
Kenneth 3. Foreman
Center of
Ghris
International Council of Religious Education
WNU
Dr. Foreman
Washington County
St. James Catholic
Edmundson
God Is
Shelley Offertory
Wu. J. Grossheim
Edith M. Shields
Christian Tabernacle
United Presbyterian
Christian
Dickinson
John Ate Gaffey
St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed
Christian Science Churches
Jacob
Methodist
Saxton
Lord
Arkhangelsky
Herb Osincup
Handel
Robert Steele
Sire
Diggle
Raymond Reed BP
Robert J. Ferrer
John N. Yousling
Country Churches
NEW Haven Baptist
Arthur Gorsh
Sedna Sanders
Grace Hile Moravean
Eucene Engel
Laverance Mikseh
Arthur Peters
Westchester
Federated
Burt Randolph
Women's Missionary Society
Merle McDowell
John McDowell
Associate Presbyterian
Church of Nazarene
Immanuel Lutheran
H. F F. Anger
ST. Paul's Evangelical & Reformed
West Chester Methodist
Kicher Mennonite
L. Fast
Pastor
Prairie Flower Baptist
Blondie
Chic Young
Darling
WRC
Crawfordsville
Cleomargarine
Chester
A. V. Sparks
Cloyd Watson
Ger
SAM James Shoe Repair Shop
Leo
J. Sueppel Genesis Holdie
Junior Sueppel
Sueppel
Phillips 66 Station
All IN
Manville
Ralph Collett
Packwood
Floyd Collett
Clyde Farley
Bob Harras
Charles Kessler
Zeno Tinnes
Kelly Tinnes
Cedar Rapids
Lloyd Derby
Wilton Harley
Maurice Tinnes
Davenport
Bob Guy
Margaret Ann
Anne Mourer
Paul McClintic
John McClin
Margaret Johnson
Rey
Weintz
Mary
Charles Morgan
Pauline Baumert
Billy Morgan
Loree Roach
John McClurg
Jim McClurg
Fairfield
Levi van Dyke
Anna Cox
Gene Morgan
R. H. Swartzwelter's
Ott Schmitter’s
Deane Schmitter
John Morgan
Paul MecClintic
Omer Johnson
Elwood Johnson
Louis J. Kehoe
Jeffrey Bldg
Theo. B. Bailey
Ss. W. Livingston
Robert Day Attorneys
W. Main
George F. Morrison
G. Gifford Morrison
J. C. Penney Co
Paul V. Shearer
McCreedy
Wendell L. Shaffer
Hotel Washington
Optometrists
C.S. Lemmon
John W. Lemmon
East Side Square
M. L. Smith
North Side Square
P L. Etter
Osteopathic
F. G. Livesay
Iowa Ave
Journal
Booth & Horak
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